See Beaver Valley responses below.

Anthony (A.R.) Burger
Supervisor, Reactor Engineering
FENOC - Beaver Valley Power Station
Phone: (724) 682-4108
Cell: (724) 601-3224
FAX: (724) 682-4250
Email: aburger@firstenergycorp.com

From: ddgoff@aep.com
To: pwrrm@retaqs.com
Date: 11/21/2011 01:55 PM
Subject: [Pwrrm] fuel inspection
Sent by: pwrrm@retaqs.com

DC Cook Reactor Engineering is looking at possible extraneous work to remove from the refueling outages.

Cook is a PWR which performs a fuel core offload and reload.

Currently our Quality Control department performs a 4-sided camera inspection of the assemblies as they leave containment on unload and as they enter containment on reload.

We are looking at reducing the inspections to occur only on unload, eliminating the reload inspection.

My Questions:

What organization at your plant performs the fuel inspections?
Response: Reactor Engineering and Fleet Fuels personnel

Do you perform the inspection on Unload?
Response: Yes

Do you perform the inspection on Reload?
Response: We inspect the top of all the fuel scheduled to be reloaded in the Spent Fuel Pool prior to reload.

What method do you use to perform the inspection, 4 cameras, 1 camera, binoculars, eyeball, etc.?
Response: Implementing a 4-sided in-cavity camera system that inspects the fuel as it is pulled up from the core into the manipulator crane mast. We demonstrated use of a single-sided camera during previous outage with good results. It also sees the bottom nozzle, but at an angle, not directly below. Cameras sit on cavity floor just outside the vessel 90 degrees apart.

thanks

Glen M Bradham, 269-465-5901 X1538
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